Standing Quotes · Page 38

Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

— Bill Moyers

I could see myself standing in front of hundreds of people proclaiming the Gospel.

— Demond Wilson

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

— Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes You Have to Stand Up, When Standing Isn't Easy

— Street Fighter

Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power.

— Lynn Nottage

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

— Salman Rushdie

Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.

— Woody Allen

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

— Daisy Whitney

My father was a simple man. My mother was a simple woman. You see the result standing in front of you, a…

— Chic Murray

It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all…

— Libba Bray

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

— Shirley Chisholm

The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change; it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'

— Polly Bergen

You're standing in the cage and you've got two options - you can quit or you can continue going, and I'm not…

— Rich Franklin

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

— Margaret Thatcher

I'll see you later Roza." "At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean you still…

— Richelle Mead

Five minutes later, we were rolling around on the helipad as he tried to muscle his way out of my armlock, after…

— Ilona Andrews

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been…

— Bobby Orr

John Cusack is standing over there.” I followed his incredulous gaze to where a man very like Mr. Cusack did indeed stand,…

— Richelle Mead

People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the…

— Artie Shaw

I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small…

— Sam Abell

The internet might be a convenience, but it hasn't yet, for me, been a fundamental reordering. These things are supposed to be…

— Joe Bradley

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that…

— John Bingham

No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that…

— Anna Quindlen

Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters…

— Nicole Krauss

When the Holy Spirit comes to live within you, He will come with the ability to produce righteousness. Righteousness is the nature…

— Chris Oyakhilome

So this is the young man who has intentions toward my little girl." Bobby shifted in his seat and crossed his legs.…

— Ally Carter

I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the audience on…

— Jan Perry

The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if…

— Thomas Jefferson

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

— Arnold Gingrich

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

— Barbara Kingsolver

Always stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone.

— Anonymous

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The times you look up expecting to see him standing there, then you remember...

— Becca

Always stand up for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.

— Anonymous

[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

— Earl Warren

Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!

— Lynne Ewing